Towards closed-loop automation in 5g open ran: Coupling an open-source simulator with xapps

T Karamplias, ST Spantideas… - 2022 Joint European …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the implementation of technological solutions that
will enable the optimization of 5G network resources and services in an automated and self …

ns-o-ran: Simulating o-ran 5g systems in ns-3

A Lacava, M Bordin, M Polese, R Sivaraj… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
O-RAN is radically shifting how cellular networks are designed, deployed and optimized
through network programmability, disaggregation, and virtualization. Specifically, RAN …

Fikore: 5g and beyond ran emulator for application level experimentation and prototyping

DG Morin, MJ Lopez-Morales, P Perez… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Novel and cutting-edge use cases have arisen since the first deployments of the fifth
generation (5G) of mobile communications. We can already find multiple 5G simulators and …

Open-source RANs in Practice: an Over-the-air Deployment for 5G MEC

J Haavisto, M Arif, L Lovén… - … on networks and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Edge computing that leverages cloud resources to the proximity of user devices is seen as
the future infrastructure for distributed applications. However, developing and deploying …

Programmable and customized intelligence for traffic steering in 5g networks using open ran architectures

A Lacava, M Polese, R Sivaraj… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
5G and beyond mobile networks will support heterogeneous use cases at an
unprecedented scale, thus demanding automated control and optimization of network …

FlexRIC: An SDK for next-generation SD-RANs

R Schmidt, M Irazabal, N Nikaein - Proceedings of the 17th International …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Unlike previous mobile networks, 5G New Radio (5G-NR) provides unprecedented flexibility
in the radio access network (RAN) to support diverse use cases in a multi-tenant …

SyntheticNET: A 3GPP compliant simulator for AI enabled 5G and beyond

SMA Zaidi, M Manalastas, H Farooq, A Imran - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid evolution of cellular system design towards 5G and beyond gives rise to a need
for investigation of the new features, design proposals and solutions in realistic settings for …

5GPerf: profiling open source 5G RAN components under different architectural deployments

C Wei, A Kak, N Choi, T Wood - … of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on 5G …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) is composed of complicated software components that
handle packet processing from the radio layer up. Recently, several open source platforms …

ColO-RAN: Developing machine learning-based xApps for open RAN closed-loop control on programmable experimental platforms

M Polese, L Bonati, S D'Oro, S Basagni… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cellular networks are undergoing a radical transformation toward disaggregated, fully
virtualized, and programmable architectures with increasingly heterogeneous devices and …

Toward modular and flexible open ran implementations in 6g networks: Traffic steering use case and o-ran xapps

M Dryjański, Ł Kułacz, A Kliks - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
The development of cellular wireless systems has entered the phase when 5G networks are
being deployed and the foundations of 6G solutions are being identified. However, in …